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Poll Supported by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence

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08/08/2016

... by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence About 9 in 10 young adults say they ... among Asian-Americans. GenForward is a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of...

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Black And Hispanic Students In New York City Most Likely To Be Arrested And Handcuffed, Data Shows

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09/27/2017

Black And Hispanic Students In New York City Most Likely To Be Arrested And Handcuffed, Data Shows More than 92 ... in schools last year were black or Hispanic, according to a new analysis — a racial disparity...

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GroundTruth Announces $1 Million Project on Climate Change

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08/18/2015

... diverse editorial team of reporting fellows and editors to lead a multimedia reporting project over the next three ... Conference in December and produce live coverage of the event as well as develop...

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Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport

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08/27/2015

Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport The launch of ... country programs manager Evans Arabu. Speaking at the event on Wednesday, Arabu noted that this is despite Kenya...

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Kress Foundation Invites Applications for Scholarly European Art Projects

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05/09/2016

... of European art and architecture, from antiquity to the dawn of the modern era. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized ... also supports activities that permit art historians...

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation

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Weinberg Foundation Employees Given $500,000 to be Grantmakers for a Day

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09/27/2016

Weinberg Foundation Employees Given $500,000 to be Grantmakers for a Day The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg ... hosts its 10th annual Employee Giving Program. At the event , 25 employees will each present a check for...

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Get to Know the New Leader of the Nation’s Largest Philanthropic Network

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11/18/2015

Get to Know the New Leader of the Nation’s Largest ... announced that they have tapped David Biemesderfer as CEO to advance its new strategic direction. Biemesderfer is ... out there doing amazing things ...

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The Other 95 Percent: How Foundations Can Give All They’ve Got

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05/09/2016

... The first centered on the question of whether or not to divest from fossil fuels. For the 135 foundations (and ... in the Divest-Invest movement, there are three reasons to divest: economics, ethics, and...

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JPMorgan Expands ‘The Fellowship Initiative’ To Help Disadvantaged High Schoolers Get Into Top Colleges

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06/21/2014

JPMorgan Expands ‘The Fellowship Initiative’ To Help Disadvantaged High Schoolers Get Into Top Colleges ... Fellowship Initiative, which JP Morgan Chase launched in NYC four years ago to help...

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United Hospital Fund Names 2019 Patricia S. Levinson Fellow

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04/03/2019

... S. Levinson Award Fund at the New York Community Trust to advance UHF’s work improving health care for vulnerable ... Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship project and will soon be working on a new project funded...

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Let’s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023

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02/16/2023

... 988 hotline—the mental health equivalent and alternative to 911—is a monumental step forward in changing how we ... Falls region’s first partial hospitalization service for youth (Avera Health 2022), a service...

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Insights from “The Path to Racial Equity: How Board Readiness Informs Organizational Readiness for Black Board Leadership”

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02/03/2023

program insights.png Insights from “The Path to Racial Equity: How Board Readiness Informs Organizational ... to making the necessary changes to its culture and ways of working...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities A new effort to enroll low- and moderate-income undergraduates at colleges ... to campuses with...

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Philanthropy: Beyond Business or Charity

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12/12/2013

... for inappropriately applying scientific methods to the remediation of social ills. While I found aspects of ... and perhaps more pernicious problem with what has come to be known as “strategic philanthropy.”...

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Citi Foundation Supports Young Entrepreneur Challenge

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11/03/2015

... Entrepreneurship (NFTE) in 1987, I have been privileged to meet young people from all over the country who share one key attribute: they aspire to own their own businesses. Every year NFTE brings together .....

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million

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09/13/2018

... will help programs take a big step forward with their STEM education efforts. The Detroit foundation announced $5.5 million in grants to 17 after-school and summer programs teaching science, ... director of...

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Useful Skills for Grantmakers

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06/2012

... major or job experience that will fully prepare you for a career in grantmaking. However, there are numerous skills that will leave you better prepared to enter this field and be successful: Expertise in a given ... program staff. A few rose to the top of their list: A good education ; for specialized positions, a post-graduate degree ...

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Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Scholarship Program at Duke Aims to Increase Underrepresented Minorities in Graduate Stem Disciplines

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01/18/2018

... P. Sloan Foundation, New Scholarship Program at Duke Aims to Increase Underrepresented Minorities in Graduate Stem ... will award 10 scholarships of $40,000 over five years to students who pursue paths in...

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Gap Inc. Announces Commitment To Advance The Lives Of One Million Women

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09/28/2015

Gap Inc. Announces Commitment To Advance The Lives Of One Million Women Art Peck, chief ... by expanding the company’s award-winning life-skills education program, Gap Inc. P.A.C.E. (Personal Advancement &...

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